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The Ranger stuck his head in the car window and whistled in appreciation, “Nice little coyote you got there!” he said, nodding at the dog. The cat smiled up at him and started to purr from her seat in back beside the dog. Marty and I looked at each other. We tried to comprehend what the man was saying.
“Where’d you get ‘er from? Boy! She’s a beaut!” The Ranger was purely ecstatic.
The cat apparently thought he was complimenting _her._ After all, she had raised the dog, maybe she was having those… Continue

Bob opened the door, and there was Baby-- waiting at the door for me. She seemed to have this _thing_ for me, but really, I had a soft spot for that big blonde, too.

As I’d gotten to know Bob’s medley of mutts (the guard dogs that he trained) I’d gotten to know his cats as well, and as I said in Part One, I’m big man, and a combat Marine, and I’m proud to say I’m a cat man. And my big blonde Baby was just one of the cats. She loved to snuggle with her brothers and sisters, and one of them even… Continue

A certain young family man down the road a piece got home from work just in time to see the henhouse from across the road blow past (without the hens), and as he pulled up to his mobile. he sat in horror as the top ripped off the place like the lid off a tin can in the freak 103mph wind, rain, lightning storm (hurricane-force winds) we had in Sandy Valley, Nevada (USA) back in the 1980s. (We even saw the funnel cloud!)
He went indoors to see the rain falling into his open house, and to experienc… Continue

and a disclaimer regarding the rescuing of wild animals:
_CALL THE PROFESSIONALS!_

Bob had been hunting—back 35 years ago, California was one of many states that paid a bounty on mountain lions, coyotes, wolves, etc., and Bob shot her mother. Hearing a baby cry, Bob investigated and found a t baby spotted female cougar cub. Feeling like a murderer, Bob packed the tiny cub home and put her to nurse on a house cat who had just weaned a litter. Eventually, she grew up into a beautiful mountain lio… Continue

Don’t worry about Baby,” Bob said. “This is usually her bedroom when nobody stays over.”

Bob trained guard dogs for a living. He trained poodles to be killer guard dogs, and they make very good guard dogs, too. He trained the regular big dogs for guard dogs, but the poodle thing really impressed me. I mean, poodles are supposed to be _cute_, for Pete’s sake!

I even helped him lease a poodle to a minute-mart place that kept getting robbed. I put on a mask and went to come in the door to simulat… Continue